Safety



(No Model.) L. L. MEYNIEU.

SAFETY APPLIANCE FOR BOTTLES.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEON LEONARD MEYNIEU, 0F BORDEAUX, FRANCE.

SAFETY APPLIANCE FOR BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,788, dated June 25, 1889.

Application filed July 14, 1886. Renewed May 24, 1889. Serial No. 311,934. (No model.)

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, LEON LEONARD MEY NIEU, of the city of Bordeaux, France, have invented a Safety Appliance for Preventing Fraud by Means of Labels for Bottles for Liquors and the Like, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists in the combination, with a bottle, of a safety-band of tin-foil, secured to a capsule of the same material, and under a gum med label on the bottle.

The drawin hereunto annexed re resents my invention applied to a bottle.

This band Z) may be of any metal, metallic composition, or other suitable substance. However, I prefer to manufacture my safetyband of the same metal as that of the capsules, (lead and tin,) this composition allowing of being colored and stamped with marks and names which it may be desired to apply thereon.

My capsule and safety-band may be man ufactured by any method now in use or which I may create specially for its manufacture. However, I describe as an example the means I preferably employ to make it.

lVhen the capsule is manufactured, I perforate it at the side or bottom. I also perforate the extremity of my safety-band b, and in the two holes thus formed I introduce an eyelet c, rivet, clasp, or any other convenient holder, and I fasten the whole with a machine employed for this purpose.

My capsule being placed on the bottle and applied by means of the usual apparatus, I place my safety-band along the length of the bottle, and I make it follow the sinuosities of the glass by means of one or more labels of paper gummed over both band and glass.

Then it is desired to take off the capsule, the safety-band, adhering firmly to the ticket, is either torn itself or tears the capsule, which cannot therefore be used again in any case, whatever precautions may have been taken to remove the capsule intact.

I claim The combination, with a bottle, of a safety appliance consisting of 'a band of tin-foil secured to a capsule of the same material and under a gummed label on the bottle, substantially as herein shown and described.

The foregoing specification of my safety appliance for preventing fraud by means of labels for bottles for liquors and the like signed by me this 25th day of June, 1886.

LEoN LEONARD MEYNIEU.

lVitnesses:

P. PETIT, GREGORY PHELAE. 

